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    • Norwegian aid to food security, nutrition and agriculture 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus (CMI Report R 2018:01, Research report, 2018-01-01)
      The report reviews available research on the links between agriculture and the rest of the economy, with a focus on structural adjustment and the role of agriculture in economic growth and poverty reduction. Furthermore, ...
    • Norwegian development assistance in support of social safety nets 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus (CMI Report R 2021:4, Research report, 2021-08-01)
      This report is commissioned by Norad as a mapping of Norwegian development assistance in support of social safety nets. It was found that a large share of the support comes in the form of emergency aid via the World Food ...
    • Poverty dynamics in rural Orissa: Transitions in assets and occupations over generations 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus (CMI Working Paper WP 2012:11, Working paper, 2012-01-01)
      We investigate whether historic land distribution determines stagnation or development of Indian villages. The empirical analysis is motivated by the Banerjee and Newman (1993) model of occupational choice and economic ...
    • Regional variation in livelihood strategies in Malawi 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2009)
      This is a background paper on livelihood strategies in rural Malawi in general. Livelihood strategies are identified at the household level as a function of assets held, using survey data. Only endowments that are likely ...
    • Son preference, number of children, education and occupational choice in rural Nepal 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus (CMI Working Paper WP 2012:8, Working paper, 2012-10-01)
      A unique family survey was conducted in Nepal to investigate the economic consequences of having a first-born girl. Women get more children, but we find no causal effect of number of children on economic outcomes. But ...
    • Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in Nepal 

      Das, Arun K.L.; Hatlebakk, Magnus (Research report, Research report, 2009)
      The discourse on social exclusion in Nepal is very ideological, with some authors considering basically all Nepalis as socially excluded except for male Bahuns of hill origin. This is obviously not very useful for targeted ...
    • The economic and social basis for state-restructuring in Nepal 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus; Ringdal, Charlotte (CMI Report R 2013:1, Research report, 2013-02-01)
      Nepal is in the process of forming a federal state, where the borders of the provinces is one essential, but disputed, issue. The report discusses underlying economic and social conditions that should be taken into account ...
    • The Effects on Agrarian Contracts of a Governmental Intervention into Bonded Labor in the Western Terai of Nepal 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus (CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2006)
      We study an effective intervention into a specific form of bonded labor. The intervention led to a shift in agrarian contracts, from bonded labor to sharecropping. By comparing the pre- and post-liberation contracts we ...
    • Usufructuary Mortgages as a Source of Funds in Need: Some Theory and an Empirical Investigation 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus; Bell, Clive (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:6, Working paper, 2017-06-01)
      This paper develops a theoretical framework in which the borrower, who mortgages out, and the lender, who mortgages in, a parcel of land reach their decisions when credit and land markets function imperfectly. The results ...
    • Will more credit increase interest rates in rural Nepal? 

      Hatlebakk, Magnus (PDF is a revised version of Department of Economics. University of Bergen. WP-21-2000, Research report, 2000-01-01)
      We test two alternative models of interest rates determination in informal rural credit markets, using LSMS data from Nepal. We find strong support for a capacity-constrained collusive oligopoly model with full information ...